The Future of Film is Female Fundraiser for 2021
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Be a part of the future of independent film as a champion for all women filmmakers!
The Future of Film is Female amplifies the work of all women filmmakers through its funding, exhibition, and promotion programs.
Our mission is to amplify female driven work by:
- Supporting filmmakers early in their career through our grant program for short films.
- Our commitment to supporting the theatrical representation of films by women through our programming.
- Our commitment to advancing racial equity in the film industry by ensuring equal representation of BIWOC within all our programs.
- Our commitment to creating industry-wide partnerships to work in solidarity towards an equitable future of film.
COVID-19 has compounded the need for equity in the film industry. We have to do the work NOW so that the Future of Film is better for all of us but we can not do it alone.
Since our beginning in 2018, The Future of Film is Female has successfully made an impact - however, small - in supporting the work of women filmmakers. We are looking to take that success to the next level during this time of transformation in the film industry to expand our funding scheme, increase our programming and support for the filmmakers we work with to achieve gender parity.
TO CONTINUE TO CHANGE THE FUTURE, WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT NOW!
THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE IS SEEKING...Financial contributions from those who are committed to help build an equitable future for the film industry.
Your contribution supports what we have planned for 2021...
-The Future of Film is Female’s short film grant program - expanding our grant offering to qualified women filmmakers, 12 filmmakers per year in grant amounts ranging from $5000 - $7500 each.
-The Future of Film is Female’s live engagement programming of talks, panels, and screenings. Virtual now and a combination of in-person and virtual in 2021.
-Developing a free membership program to launch in summer or fall 2021.
-Operating expenses for our growing organization to better implement support for our filmmakers, colleagues, and partners.
Over 50% of our funding is dedicated for direct support of filmmakers. Our funding breakdown is:
-33% goes towards our short filmmaker grants.
-20% goes paying shorts filmmakers featured on The Future of Film is Female STREAMING and paying moderators/hosts/panelists for our events.
-47% goes towards programming, operational expenses, programming, building out infrastructure and membership program, staff salaries .
Supporting The Future of Film Is Female gives you the an array of benefits which include but are not limited to:
-A significant platform that uniquely allows the ability to directly shape and build an equitable future of the film industry via your public pledge to support gender parity in film. Representation matters!
-Larger amounts can sponsor an exhibition, event, mentor program, or funding round, you will receive direct access to diverse, talented, and emerging independent filmmakers at the beginning stages of a successful future in film.
-Secured placement within a network of organizations, filmmakers, and publications that are in active solidarity in the fight for gender parity in film.
-Alignment with our inclusionary values via your logo placement on our website “donor” page with your name and shoutouts via our extensive social network.
The Future of Film is Female has provided pre-production and post-production grants to over TWENTY FIVE filmmaker projects in TWO years.
All proceeds from FOFIF product sales go towards funding all women filmmakers at any stage of a production of a short film. We’ve been able to award grants to more than 25 projects through our t-shirt sales alone! The FOFIF offers pre-production financial grants and post-production grants through our partners Heard City (sound editing, mixing) and Nice Shoes (color correction services). We aim to award grants three times a year.
The filmmakers who receive grants become a part of the FOFIF familial community where we continue to support each filmmaker throughout their careers with referrals, exhibition, and promotion. You can read about our filmmakers here !
The Future of Film is Female is committed to gender and racial equality in the film industry throughout all of our programs. Read our pledge here !
Funded Filmmakers: 61% BIWOC, 19% Black Women.
Exhibition is essential towards achieving gender equality behind the camera.
The FOFIF has a unique industry commitment to increase the representation of all women filmmakers in the cinema. Many organizations work towards ensuring production of women directed films while we also work to get complete the cycle by getting those films in front of audiences.
The FOFIF curates an ongoing screening program, THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE, at The Museum of Modern Art presenting contemporary features and short films directed by women. Feature filmmakers have included Shirin Neshat, Nia DaCosta, Karyn Kusama, Gillian Robespierre, and Maysaloun Hamoud along with shorts filmmakers Mariama Diallo, Crystal Kayiza, Eleanor Wilson, and Ivete Lucas.
The FOFIF regularly curates screenings at Nitehawk Cinema (Brooklyn, NY) with programs such as CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE MEN and STRIKE: WOMEN WRITERS, EDITORS, & CINEMATOGRAPHERS. The FOFIF also partners with Rooftop Films for provocative short film screenings each summer.
The Future of Film is Female is creating a community.
The FOFIF is committed to creating connective experiences with all women in the film industry through screenings, moderated discussions, and mixers. Before the pandemic, we would host screenings and connective experiences with women who work in different aspects of film to create a space for collaboration. Since the pandemic, we have successfully pivoted to do this work via virtual events, screenings, and conversations with The Future of Film is Female STREAMING.
The Future of Film is Female STREAMING .
Our online channel screening short films and theatrical releases by all women filmmakers as part of our mission to achieve gender parity in the film industry through exhibition (even in a pandemic). Films presented are by FOFIF funded filmmakers, our MoMA series, and a curated selection of the best works being made today. Films we’ve screened include PAHOKEE (Ivete Lucas), MISS JUNETEENTH (Channing Godfrey Peoples), SHIRLEY (Josephine Decker), THE PLANTERS (Hannah Leder and Alexandra Kotcheff) along with nearly thirty short films streaming for free.
The Future of Film is Female hosts virtual conversations free to the public.
Connecting with other people in the independent film community during this uncertain time has been a lifeline to sustain community and to continue to support being released. We’ve had the pleasure of hosting over thirteen virtual discussions since May 2020, working with organizations like Neon, IFC Films, Magnolia Pictures, Peace is Loud, and Nightstream, to present talks including Eliza Hittman for NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, Josephine Decker and Elisabeth Moss for SHIRLEY, Amy Seimitz and Kate Lyn Sheil for SHE DIES TOMORROW , "The Future of Horror is Female panel (Part 1 and Part 2 )", and "This Film Kills Fascism: Filmmaking for Civil Engagement ".
Caryn Coleman - Founder of The Future of Film is Female - is a film programmer based in Brooklyn, New York who founded The Future of Film is Female in 2018. For the FOFIF, she curates a screening series at the Museum of Modern Art and launched FOFIF STREAMING in April 2020 to support womxn filmmakers during the cinema shutdown. Coleman is also the Director of Programming/Special Projects at Nitehawk Cinema where she programs the annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival, new releases of independent films (focusing on horror and women filmmakers), and special repertory screenings.
Coleman founded the blog The Girl Who Knew Too Much, which received the 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Initiative grant, and was co-editor of the philosophy journal Incognitum Hactenus. She has organized panels for the Art House Convergence, Athena Film Festival, Connective Conversations for the Ford Foundation at the University of Oregon, IFP, Nightstream, and the CAA. She received her MFA at Goldsmiths College, UK.
A NOTE FROM FOFIF FOUNDER
I started The Future of Film is Female because I wanted to do more for the filmmakers I worked with over the years programming the Nitehawk Shorts Festival . After the 2016 presidential election, it became very clear to me that my role as a film programmer is a privileged one and that I have the ability to support underrepresented voices by getting their stories in front of as many people as possible. So that’s what we do!
Now we find ourselves in a precarious moment for the film industry. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced production, cinemas, and festivals to close but it's also forced us to start thinking in new, productive ways. The FOFIF is positioned to be a major leader in shaping a better future for film; one that is inclusive of women, BIWOC, and non-binary filmmakers in all aspects of the industry. We understand that engagement, education, and exhibition are key in having parity in film and have been doing the work in curating discussions, screenings, and context about contemporary films (short and features). In little more than two years we've been able to fund over 25 projects, have curated exhibitions in cinemas like MoMA, and now host an entire virtual platform to continue to support women filmmakers. And now we're ready to do more!
I would be ever grateful for your support in helping us continue to build a better future and thank you sincerely for your pledge!
THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE'S BOARD
Rajendra Roy is The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at The Museum of Modern Art, a role in which he leads the Museum’s year-round initiatives to exhibit and preserve works from its collection of about 27,000 titles.
Julie La’Bassiere is currently Head of Special Projects at Obscured Pictures where she leads the charge on marketing and promotional outreach, strategic partnerships, awards campaigns, sales and distribution and special events. Prior to Obscured, she was the CEO of BAFTA New York. La’Bassiere is a film industry expert who has been at the forefront of innovative 360° entertainment strategy for the past two decades. She is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Educational Anthropology.
Florencia Varela is the Senior Campaigns Manager at Peace is Loud, a nonprofit organization that advances transformative social justice through storytelling.
THANK YOU & PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
The Future of Film is Female amplifies the work of all women filmmakers through its funding, exhibition, and promotion programs.
Our mission is to amplify female driven work by:
- Supporting filmmakers early in their career through our grant program for short films.
- Our commitment to supporting the theatrical representation of films by women through our programming.
- Our commitment to advancing racial equity in the film industry by ensuring equal representation of BIWOC within all our programs.
- Our commitment to creating industry-wide partnerships to work in solidarity towards an equitable future of film.
COVID-19 has compounded the need for equity in the film industry. We have to do the work NOW so that the Future of Film is better for all of us but we can not do it alone.
Since our beginning in 2018, The Future of Film is Female has successfully made an impact - however, small - in supporting the work of women filmmakers. We are looking to take that success to the next level during this time of transformation in the film industry to expand our funding scheme, increase our programming and support for the filmmakers we work with to achieve gender parity.
TO CONTINUE TO CHANGE THE FUTURE, WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT NOW!
THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE IS SEEKING...Financial contributions from those who are committed to help build an equitable future for the film industry.
Your contribution supports what we have planned for 2021...
-The Future of Film is Female’s short film grant program - expanding our grant offering to qualified women filmmakers, 12 filmmakers per year in grant amounts ranging from $5000 - $7500 each.
-The Future of Film is Female’s live engagement programming of talks, panels, and screenings. Virtual now and a combination of in-person and virtual in 2021.
-Developing a free membership program to launch in summer or fall 2021.
-Operating expenses for our growing organization to better implement support for our filmmakers, colleagues, and partners.
Over 50% of our funding is dedicated for direct support of filmmakers. Our funding breakdown is:
-33% goes towards our short filmmaker grants.
-20% goes paying shorts filmmakers featured on The Future of Film is Female STREAMING and paying moderators/hosts/panelists for our events.
-47% goes towards programming, operational expenses, programming, building out infrastructure and membership program, staff salaries .
Supporting The Future of Film Is Female gives you the an array of benefits which include but are not limited to:
-A significant platform that uniquely allows the ability to directly shape and build an equitable future of the film industry via your public pledge to support gender parity in film. Representation matters!
-Larger amounts can sponsor an exhibition, event, mentor program, or funding round, you will receive direct access to diverse, talented, and emerging independent filmmakers at the beginning stages of a successful future in film.
-Secured placement within a network of organizations, filmmakers, and publications that are in active solidarity in the fight for gender parity in film.
-Alignment with our inclusionary values via your logo placement on our website “donor” page with your name and shoutouts via our extensive social network.
The Future of Film is Female has provided pre-production and post-production grants to over TWENTY FIVE filmmaker projects in TWO years.
All proceeds from FOFIF product sales go towards funding all women filmmakers at any stage of a production of a short film. We’ve been able to award grants to more than 25 projects through our t-shirt sales alone! The FOFIF offers pre-production financial grants and post-production grants through our partners Heard City (sound editing, mixing) and Nice Shoes (color correction services). We aim to award grants three times a year.
The filmmakers who receive grants become a part of the FOFIF familial community where we continue to support each filmmaker throughout their careers with referrals, exhibition, and promotion. You can read about our filmmakers here !
The Future of Film is Female is committed to gender and racial equality in the film industry throughout all of our programs. Read our pledge here !
Funded Filmmakers: 61% BIWOC, 19% Black Women.
Exhibition is essential towards achieving gender equality behind the camera.
The FOFIF has a unique industry commitment to increase the representation of all women filmmakers in the cinema. Many organizations work towards ensuring production of women directed films while we also work to get complete the cycle by getting those films in front of audiences.
The FOFIF curates an ongoing screening program, THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE, at The Museum of Modern Art presenting contemporary features and short films directed by women. Feature filmmakers have included Shirin Neshat, Nia DaCosta, Karyn Kusama, Gillian Robespierre, and Maysaloun Hamoud along with shorts filmmakers Mariama Diallo, Crystal Kayiza, Eleanor Wilson, and Ivete Lucas.
The FOFIF regularly curates screenings at Nitehawk Cinema (Brooklyn, NY) with programs such as CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE MEN and STRIKE: WOMEN WRITERS, EDITORS, & CINEMATOGRAPHERS. The FOFIF also partners with Rooftop Films for provocative short film screenings each summer.
The Future of Film is Female is creating a community.
The FOFIF is committed to creating connective experiences with all women in the film industry through screenings, moderated discussions, and mixers. Before the pandemic, we would host screenings and connective experiences with women who work in different aspects of film to create a space for collaboration. Since the pandemic, we have successfully pivoted to do this work via virtual events, screenings, and conversations with The Future of Film is Female STREAMING.
The Future of Film is Female STREAMING .
Our online channel screening short films and theatrical releases by all women filmmakers as part of our mission to achieve gender parity in the film industry through exhibition (even in a pandemic). Films presented are by FOFIF funded filmmakers, our MoMA series, and a curated selection of the best works being made today. Films we’ve screened include PAHOKEE (Ivete Lucas), MISS JUNETEENTH (Channing Godfrey Peoples), SHIRLEY (Josephine Decker), THE PLANTERS (Hannah Leder and Alexandra Kotcheff) along with nearly thirty short films streaming for free.
The Future of Film is Female hosts virtual conversations free to the public.
Connecting with other people in the independent film community during this uncertain time has been a lifeline to sustain community and to continue to support being released. We’ve had the pleasure of hosting over thirteen virtual discussions since May 2020, working with organizations like Neon, IFC Films, Magnolia Pictures, Peace is Loud, and Nightstream, to present talks including Eliza Hittman for NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, Josephine Decker and Elisabeth Moss for SHIRLEY, Amy Seimitz and Kate Lyn Sheil for SHE DIES TOMORROW , "The Future of Horror is Female panel (Part 1 and Part 2 )", and "This Film Kills Fascism: Filmmaking for Civil Engagement ".
Caryn Coleman - Founder of The Future of Film is Female - is a film programmer based in Brooklyn, New York who founded The Future of Film is Female in 2018. For the FOFIF, she curates a screening series at the Museum of Modern Art and launched FOFIF STREAMING in April 2020 to support womxn filmmakers during the cinema shutdown. Coleman is also the Director of Programming/Special Projects at Nitehawk Cinema where she programs the annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival, new releases of independent films (focusing on horror and women filmmakers), and special repertory screenings.
Coleman founded the blog The Girl Who Knew Too Much, which received the 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Initiative grant, and was co-editor of the philosophy journal Incognitum Hactenus. She has organized panels for the Art House Convergence, Athena Film Festival, Connective Conversations for the Ford Foundation at the University of Oregon, IFP, Nightstream, and the CAA. She received her MFA at Goldsmiths College, UK.
A NOTE FROM FOFIF FOUNDER
I started The Future of Film is Female because I wanted to do more for the filmmakers I worked with over the years programming the Nitehawk Shorts Festival . After the 2016 presidential election, it became very clear to me that my role as a film programmer is a privileged one and that I have the ability to support underrepresented voices by getting their stories in front of as many people as possible. So that’s what we do!
Now we find ourselves in a precarious moment for the film industry. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced production, cinemas, and festivals to close but it's also forced us to start thinking in new, productive ways. The FOFIF is positioned to be a major leader in shaping a better future for film; one that is inclusive of women, BIWOC, and non-binary filmmakers in all aspects of the industry. We understand that engagement, education, and exhibition are key in having parity in film and have been doing the work in curating discussions, screenings, and context about contemporary films (short and features). In little more than two years we've been able to fund over 25 projects, have curated exhibitions in cinemas like MoMA, and now host an entire virtual platform to continue to support women filmmakers. And now we're ready to do more!
I would be ever grateful for your support in helping us continue to build a better future and thank you sincerely for your pledge!
THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE'S BOARD
Rajendra Roy is The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at The Museum of Modern Art, a role in which he leads the Museum’s year-round initiatives to exhibit and preserve works from its collection of about 27,000 titles.
Julie La’Bassiere is currently Head of Special Projects at Obscured Pictures where she leads the charge on marketing and promotional outreach, strategic partnerships, awards campaigns, sales and distribution and special events. Prior to Obscured, she was the CEO of BAFTA New York. La’Bassiere is a film industry expert who has been at the forefront of innovative 360° entertainment strategy for the past two decades. She is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Educational Anthropology.
Florencia Varela is the Senior Campaigns Manager at Peace is Loud, a nonprofit organization that advances transformative social justice through storytelling.
THANK YOU & PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
Fundraising team (2)
Caryn Coleman
Organizer
Raised $4,358 from 66 donations
Brooklyn, NY
Florencia Varela
Team member
This team raised $7,398 from 101 other donations.
